Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  -less so far. It’s okay, because after class, I can walk right across the ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... be about. As an admissions officer, I recognize that while the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... ’s call it a tail—yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... get the idea. If you don’t, there’s probably nothing else that I can say.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  what you choose to do, it seems like you can’t go wrong.” I blinked ... , we can make it a purse instead!” *** Now I'll be off to enjoy my last ... likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [annotation note="oof again I can't really specify what this was because of the ... can healthily manage in a semester, but I felt so fulfilled doing ... describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  you and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, "what can I learn ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... . When I was taking 6.01, there was one day where I was hosed beyond belief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... Over the last few weeks I've posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... exams which ended early June, I immediately set off for some traveling (I ... farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  opportunities to do this. I tell myself, I can hang out with people tomorrow, or ... -buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. When people ask me “how’s MIT?” I answer something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... feel like we’re representing all of womankind. I really can’t even begin ... intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really like this analogy, because I feel like it also mirrors the way

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  thirty-four recent posts. But, qualitatively, I can say that these 20 years ... Jessie L. '07 I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog by ... Barkowitz Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  "]too easy[/annotation] to simply declare "Now Critter can walk." Therefore, I ... This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010